iPad IS Mobile Shopping

That glorious golden brown turkey has been reduced to sandwiches and, if you’re lucky, soup stock. Likewise, the first official weekend of the holiday shopping season is behind us and all that is left to do is crunch the data or, in this case, get our collective heads around a single number — nearly 90 percent of mobile shopping originated on an Apple iPad.

According to holiday shopping data collected by IBM — Holiday Benchmark Infographic (image below) — mobile shopping is growing, and fast. However, nearly all of that originated on a single platform: the iPad.